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Climate Said to Influence The Stradivarius Violin's Sound
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For centuries, experts have debated whether special varnishes or wood treatments were the secret to the Stradivarius violin's rich resonance. Now a tree-ring dating expert at the University of Tennessee and a climatologist at Columbia University offer a new theory: the wood developed special acoustic properties as it was growing because of an extended period of long winters and cool summers.
"It just started clicking, and I thought, 'Oh, we are on to something,'" he said.
Grissino-Mayer at Tennessee and Dr. Lloyd Burckle at Columbia suggest a "Little Ice Age" that gripped Europe from the mid-1400s until the mid-1800s slowed tree growth and yielded uncommonly dense Alpine spruce for Antonio Stradivari and other famous 17th century Italian violinmakers.
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